J.H. Gilmour
Actor · 1857 – 1922 · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Movie4.4DramaAn aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
King Lear
1916 · 7 votes
Movie7.0DramaStella Derrick and Dick Hazelwood love each other, but their families want them to make better financial matches.
The Witness for the Defense
1919 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaDuring World War I, a group of German saboteurs plot to blow up an ammunition dump in New York City. A secret agent sets out to stop them.
Sylvia of the Secret Service
1917 · 1 votes
Movie6.6ActionMysteryA young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...
The House of Hate
1918 · 5 votes
Movie7.0DramaThe Reunion
1916 · 1 votes
MovieDramaBeam opens a boarding house and many interesting characters are introduced. She spreads her optimism to their lives. Also to her blind father by telling him army stories about her brother when in actuality, he's deserted.
Movie5.2WesternAdventureA small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.
The Return of Draw Egan
1916 · 18 votes
Movie8.0MysteryAfter old Trowbridge is mysteriously murdered, his nephew, Kane Langdon, is accused of the crime. Trowbridge's adopted daughter Alice makes every effort to prove Kane's innocence, but to no avail. When Kane escapes from the clutches of the law, Alice works with him to investigate the crime. They soon discover that Judge Hoyt, a great friend of Trowbridge and an ardent admirer of Alice, killed Trowbridge after forging the old man's will to read that Alice would only inherit his fortune if she married the judge. The judge, confronted with the accusation, becomes so unnerved that he confesses to the crime, and all ends happily with Alice in Kane's arms.
The Mark of Cain
1917 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyDramaQueen Anne of Gzbfernigambia, who is betrothed to King Stephen of Hetland, flees to the United States with Baron Cosaco when a revolution breaks out in her country.
Such a Little Queen
1921 · 1 votes
Movie4.8DramaConvicted in a revolutionary conspiracy, a man rashly states that he wishes never again to hear the name of the United States of America. The judge grants him his wish, sentencing him to life aboard a ship always at sea, aboard with sailors under orders never to let him hear of his homeland in any way. The punishment nearly destroys him, while changing him thoroughly.
The Man Without a Country
1917 · 9 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe Woman and the Beast
1917 · 1 votes
MovieDramaThe Mark of Cain
1916
MovieDramaThe affluent Carnabys have now dwindled in fortune and family, leaving just Lucy and her brother, Gordon in financial straits. Situations escalate as they struggle to pay their bills and deal with Gordon's gambling debts.
Movie9.0DramaThe Soul of Man
1921 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA powerful financial magnate is plotted against by his greedy son.
Democracy: The Vision Restored
1920 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaMary Lawson, on the run from a false murder charge finds happiness in marriage to a simple man until the day a villain from her past emerges and threatens all she’s built.
Mary Lawson's Secret
1917 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaThe lead Florence La Badie plays dual roles. Clever editing is used for the scene where her two characters meet. La Badie, however, does appear twice within a scene via superimposition, but that's in a flashback-within-a-mirror scene. There are a couple such scenes where La Badie's reflection in the mirror reflects her reflective melancholy mood.
The Woman in White
1917 · 3 votes
MovieMysteryWhen her surgeon father loses his fortune, Norma Webb (Castle) turns her family home into a boarding house.
The First Law
1918
Movie9.0MysteryA playwright, Wakefield, Jr., turns detective when his father is killed after nearly capturing two brothers in possession of four rubies belonging to the British Museum. An investigation suggests that "the Breen girl" is responsible for Wakefield's death, and the younger Wakefield pursues her across the ocean to the United States.
The Wakefield Case
1921 · 1 votes
MovieDramaThe Key to Power
1920
Movie9.0DramaMary Malloy works as a scullery maid in a hotel. She meets reporter Bob Norton, who soon falls in love with her. When Mary learns that one of her friends is to be evicted, she pawns an old silver goblet with her family crest in order to get money to forestall the eviction. The pawnbrokers, realizing how valuable the goblet is, hatch a scheme to use Mary as a patsy while they substitute fake pearls for the real thing. Bob, however, becomes suspicious.
The Magic Cup
1921 · 1 votes
- MovieMystery
1917 American silent mystery film directed by Ernest C. Warde.
Movie3.0DramaA married man suddenly inherits a fortune and finally has enough money to live his dream of becoming an artist. He moves his wife and daughter to a big expensive house and starts living the life of a "bohemian" artist. When he begins an affair with another woman, his wife leaves him and his daughter Alicia breaks off her engagement to a wealthy doctor and becomes involved in the "free love" movement espoused by one Herbert Rawlins. Rawlins, however, has his own plans for Alicia, and they don't involve "sharing" her with anyone else. Complications ensue.
Divorce and the Daughter
1916 · 3 votes
- MovieDrama
Nell leaves the farm to start a candy store in New York, but has a troubled start until she meets Jack Monroe, a young spendthrift who helps her attract business. They fall in love, marry, and move in with Jack's father. Nell soon discovers that Jack is a drug addict. In sympathy, Jack's father offers to annul the marriage, but Nell refuses, wishing instead to commit herself to the indefinite struggle of pursuing the road to Jack's rehabilitation.
The Candy Girl
1917